Author: Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen
Title: Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts Ca. 1710-63
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover. A red cloth hardcover book with a blue dust jacket featuring a color illustration and typed white title on the front cover; the title is also typed in white along the spine. There is another color illustration on the back. Pages: xxi, 369. Contains many color illustrations and maps. "While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was made in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight." Contents: Foreword / Susan Weber Soros -- Timeline / compiled by Eugene J. Kisluk and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger -- Porcelain and prestige : princely gifts and "white gold" from Meissen / Maureen Cassidy-Geiger -- In the realm of Meissen porcelain, "golden liberty," and diplomacy : Saxony and Poland-Lithuania, 1697-1763 / Eugene J. Kisluk -- Artistry and chivalry : diplomatic gifts for the Kunstkammer and Rüstkammer / Dirk Syndram and Jutta Charlotte von Bloh -- In a porcelain mirror : reflections of Russia from Peter I to Empress Elizabeth / Lydia Liackhova -- Liaisons fragiles : exchanges of gifts between Saxony and Prussia in the early eighteenth century / Samuel Wittwer -- Meissen porcelain for the imperial court in Vienna / Johanna Lessmann -- Gifts of Meissen porcelain to the French court, 1728-50 / Selma Schwartz and Jeffrey Munger -- Denmark and Saxony : family ties and Meissen porcelain / Jørgen Hein and Mogens Bencard -- Porcelain and diplomacy at the courts of Hanover and Cologne / Marcus Köhler -- Princes and porcelain on the grand tour of Italy / Maureen Cassidy-Geiger -- Sweden, Hesse-Cassel, and Meissen : the fragile peace / Lars Ljungström -- Dogs and diplomats : Meissen porcelain in England, 1732-54 / Meredith Chilton -- Meissen porcelain and porcelain diplomacy / Peter Braum. VG+: Brand-new, still in its packaging wrap .

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Meissen Porcelain ; ; Ceramics - European


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